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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-06-08

The books in the British Museum are
bound on a principle, historical works
being in red, theological in blue, poetical
in yellow, natural history in green. Each
part of volume is stamped with mark
by which it can be distinguished as their
property, and of different colors. Red
indicates that book was purchased, blue
that it came by copyright, and yellow
that it was presented.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-06-08
7, There a Cure for Consumption:

We answer unreseryedIy, yes! n the patlent
commences in time the use Of DR.. Pierce's
Golden Medical Discovery" and exercises
proper care. II allowed to run its course too
Pieice never deceives a patient by holding out
a false hope for the sake Of pecuniary gain.
The "Golden Medical Discovery" has cured
thousands of patients when nothing else
two stamps for DR.. Pierce complete treatise
on consuu1ption with numerous testimonials.
Address Worlds Dispensary Medical Associa-
tion Buffalo N. Y.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-06-08
Oyerfed Fowls

The farmer, by the exclusive use Of
corn, 80 overfats his fowlsas to get few,
if any eggs; those he does get being of
email size compared to the normal size
for the breed. Corn has but II per cent.
of muscle and - per cent of fat. Of
course Brahma, fat and smooth in
plumage, makes fine picture and fine
chow specimen. but, like the race-horse,
all this surplus fat must be reduced be-
fore, like him, their performance will be
creditable.
Fowls to breed well, and to lay good
sized eggs and an abundance of them.
must be in fair flesh only, The food
should be oats, wheat meal and vegeta-
bles, with but little CORN; exercise may
be secured, if the fowls are cooped up,
by compelling them to scratch for their
afternoon food, orby allowing them to
roam the fields for their afternoon meal.
Birds shut up close all winter, having
had no sulphur, fed largely on corn, with
but little animal food, and little if any
exercise, will not Jay will hatch.
Our Country Home.
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Hillsdale, Mich.

Hillsiale, Mich.
GxNTs:-I was persuaded by your agent to
try DR.. Pardee's Rheumatic Remedy, for
whnt the doctors called heart disease. 1t
proved to be rheumatism Of the heart, and
after taking the remedy As directed, found
immediate relief. Iconinusd its use and am
now entirely cured. was also troubled with
inhanmatory rheumatism, which it has en-
tirsly driven away; 50 much so that I can At
tend 10 my laundry business with ease and
without suffering, for which am very thank
full
MRS. SARAH CAREL.
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Mr.. H. Carl, 13s Fourth Street, Troy, n. Y,
says: "My daughter had a sprained ankle: st.
Jacobs Oil cured her in a day or two. My son
had rheumatism about nine years ago, st.
Jacobs Oil cured him; he has not been af-
fected since.n Price fifty cents.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-06-08

CITIZEN GEORGE FRANCIS TRAIN says that
when he stopped eating meat. thiri cen years
ago, and began living on fruit and grain, he
weighed 2l0 pounds. He now weighs ls0 and
as he is six feet in height, he thinks he has the
correct proportion. He has not been i'll an
bour since he began fasting.
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Over 1000 cars of oranges were
shipped East from Southern California
during the season of 1886; total OF
over 80, 600, 900 pounds.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-06-08

A CITIZEN of Beaver Falls, Penn, has dog
that used to answer to the name of Snipe.
Once the family went visiting and left Snipe
locked up in the house. 1t was forty-three days
before they returned, but they found the dog
alive. He recovered from his long fast, and
since then he has been called Tanner.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-06-08

A FRENCH ambassador to the English court
paid a neat compliment 10 Il neerrss who had
been talking to him for an hour. The lady
said: "You must think ! am very iond uf
tic sound of my own voice." The FrenchnIan
replied: Il knew you liked music"
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Six Years q Sufferer with Neuralgia.


Rochester, N. Y, April 7th, 1855.
GENTs:-For six years my wife has suffered
greatly with Neuralgia pains in her head and
neck, and at times in tho stomach and about
the heart. She had been confined to her bed
for days at a time, suffering the most ercru
eating pains. We employed medical aid,
but only found temporary relief. For the
past two months she hats been using DR.. Par
eos Remedy, and she is now entirely free
from pain, and feels ss well as ever. Imost
eheerfully recommend it to all who are
an,ctsa with Neuralgia, for I know it will
euro it.
am, very respectfully yours,
THOMAS BAKER.
Contractor and Builder
Cor. Frank and Montrose streets
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DR.. Pierce's "Pelletts"-the original Little
Liver Pills" (sugar -coated)-cure sick and bill
ious headache, sour stomach, and bilious at
tacks. By druggists.
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From Philipsburg, Pa, Mr.. S. VI. Cros,,
writes, briefly and pointedly, thus: Your St.
Jacobs Oil has cured me Of neuralgia of the
face and head.n Price fifty cents.
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Hawking and Spitting.n
Three Bottles Cure Catarrh.

ELI ROBBINS, Runpan P. o., Columbia Co..
Pa, says: my daughter had catarrh when
Sage's Catarrh Remedy advertised, and pro-
cured bottle for her, and soon saw that it
helped her; third bottle effected Perma,
nent cure. She is now eighteen years old and
sound and hearty"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-06-08

IL Great Britain last year forty:seven books
on Ireland were published, and thirty-one on
the subject of Shakespeare and his lite.
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To Grow Strawberries.

The main points involved in the sue
cessful culture of this fruit. as recog-
nized by our best cultiSators, are as fol-
lows:
l. Prepare the ground by deep plow-
ing and subsoiling; appGa dressing of
rotted manure equal to twenty cords per
acre; spread it over the ground and mix
with the surface soil by repeated and
thorough disintegration with a harrow.
The best crops are produced on strong,
loamy soils; if somewhat olayey, it will
be all the better provided it is drained.
2. Give the plants plenty of space. The
rows should not be less than thirty inches
apart, and the plants about half that dis
tance between each other in the rows.
8. Remove all runners as they appear,
and keep the surface we'll pulverized and
clean during summer after the crop has
been gathered IN old plantations-the
same cleanly treatment applying to new
ly set out plants. If young plants are
wanted, keepa portion of the plantation
for that purpose.
4. Cover Che plants in winter, after the
freezing weather sets in, with straw,
leaves, or other similar material, as a
partial protection from injury by frost.
: 5. Do not disturb the roots by any pro-
cess Of cultivation from the month of
September until after the crop has been
gathered.
8. Make new plantation every year,
and destroy the old plants after they
have produced second crop.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-06-08
How the Famous Memory. encher Occn-
pies His Time-The Busiest Man In

How the Famous Memory.T en- cher Occn-
pies His Time-The Busiest Man In
America.
For instance, during tho week commenc-
ing May 9. On that evening he gave the nrst
of his course of five lectures to second class
at Yale of 200 students. May TO- he gave the
first lecture to q class of 400 students at he
University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia:
May II, he gave the third Of his course TO iOO
Columbia law students. May II, he gave the
first lecture to 800 lady students Of Wellesley
College, Mass, and May 13 he gave the second
lecture at the University OF Pennsylvania.
And yet he Is always found at his offce from
8A NJ till noon of every day. During this time
he runs through his correspondence, giving
his assist ITS the most minute and detailed in.
structions in regard 10 each letter received
or any other matter that is brought to his no.
tice. In tho afternoon he travels out OF town.
and in the evening g.ves his lecture, always
returning home the same night or early next
morning. He endures all this incessant occu-
patton and necessitated broken sleep because
he loves his work and because he takes good
care of his health. He claims that the warm
weather is the best time in the year for study.
The lectures, It is true, are not essential 10
the mastery Of the Professors system, since
his printed lesson-papers are full and COM
plete. enabling any one to learn:-M: Y. Horh.
Wonderful Machine and Offer.
To introduce them we give away UOO Self
operating Washing Machines. No labor or
Washboard. Best in tho world. II You want
one, write The National Co.. q Dey St., n. ".
Best easiest to use and cheapest. Piso's
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-06-08

Thousands of women bless the day on which
DR., Pierces "Favorite Prescription" was made
known to them. In all those arrangements
causing backache, dragging down sensations,
nervous and general debility, It is sovereign
render it of the utmost value to ladies suffer-
| ing from "internal fever" congestion, inham-
nation or liberation. BY druggists.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-06-08

SENIOR GALLARDO, a farmer OF Cordova,
Spain, who was captured by bandits, paid
S. 900 for his release.
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PROF. LOISETTE AND COLLEGES,

ABoUT $4,000 sets of the Grant Memoirs
haye 40 far been sold.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-06-08

ROYAL GLUE mends anything! Broken Chi
ma, Glass, Wood. Free Walls at Drugs e. Gre
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Ticks on Sheep.


published work ON the American merino,
says: "The sheep of the careless farmer
is nearly always infested with the tick
(Melophagus ovis) and less frequently
with the louise" When the number of
ticks becomes very large they prevent
growth in lambs or the making of much
flesh on the older animals. The best
mode of eradicating ticks, lice, and itch
among sheep is to dip them soon after
shearing in spring, not emitting the
lambs at the same time. There are va
rious solutions used as sheep dips, but
tobacco and sulphur are usually pre-
ferred and less dangerous than the arseni-
cal compounds often recommended. To
make dipping solution, use thirty-tive
pounds of good strong tobacco and ten
pounds of sulphur to every hundred gal
Ions of water. The tobacco must be
stepped several days to extract its
strength, and the sulphur stirred in when
the liquid is warmed up for use. The
size and capacity of the vats and tanks
will depend upon the number of sheep
and lambs to be dipped, Every member
of the flock-old and young be
dipped in the solution, the nose and face
excepted, and held in it for half min
nte- Then set on its feet where the liquid
will drain off and run back in the tank
to prevent unnecessary waste. The dip
ping liquid should be kept warm, or at a
temperature of about 120 degrees, while in
use. Where large hocks of several thou
sand head are kept, as in California and
other Western States, swimming baths
are often provided and the sheep driven
through them, one or more at time,
thereby saving the trouble of catching
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-06-08
Hoods Sarsaparllla
Makes the Weak Strong
Hoods Sarsaparilla
100 Doses One Dollar

Sold by all druggista 81; six for Is. Prepare
by C. HOOD 4 CO., Apothecaries, Lowell Masa
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Moving aud Pasture Lands.

Moving aud Pasture Lands.
The PlOughman has the following sug-
gestions in regard to the care of moving
and pasture lands: Many farmers neg
lect to clear their moving fields of stones,
sticks, and other Instructions to the
moving machine, until the grass gets so
high that it is difficult, if not impossible,
to see them, and so the knives of the
mower are injured if not broken; this is
very poor policy, for on most of moving
fields if the work be done before the grass
starts much, the labor of removing all
distractions to the harvesting machines
is comparatively light. Land that has
been covered with a good dressing of
barn manure during the winter, will re-
quire more labor to put it in good con-
dition than if no dressing had been ap-
piled, but it will not pay to neglect such
fields, for whatever Jumps of manure
there may be that have resisted the ac-
tio2 of the frost should be beat up fine,
20 as to settle down to the roots of the
grass, or they will not only be of no ben
eft to the grass but they will injure the
moving machine, and prevent cutting
we'll Nlldt grass NoCS SiO". iicH Nos'iS
are pastured next to moving field, care
should be taken to have the fence in q
condition good anough to discourage the
cattle from making any effort to break
through it.
Before cattle are turned out to pasture
the fences should all be put in good or
der, and the grass should be grown suf-
ficient to furnish the cattle all they care
to eat BY feeding half the time. There
is nothing gained by turning the cattle
in pasture as soon as it begins to look a
little green; this is not only bad for the
cattle, but it is bad for the pasture; many
pastures are greatly injured by early and
late feeding; in fact there is no portion of
the farm so badly treated as the pasture.
Many farmers seem to think that all there
is to do to a pasture is to fence it, and
some even neglect to do that very well,
but It is just as important to improve the
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1887-04-30

THE everyday life of men like Jay
Gould, Russell Sage, and others OF
their class has hundred cares growing
out of and yet not connected with their
stocks and bonds, writes q correspond
emit of the Philadelphia Times. Hardly
q day passes that all of the great leaders
are not pestered by scores of little spec
ulators, each anxious to get pointer
from the men who can bring about q
panic in five hours if they wish, and
hardly day passes that they do moi
give dozen bits of advice. @Tell me
what to do, Mr.. Sage" burst out an ex-
cited intruder in that gentleman's Office
recently; "ten me what stock to operate
in for turn. That's all I ask. Icant
afford to lose . cent My folks are IN
want of the necessaries of LIFE" Mr..
Sage told him that it was pretty diff.
fcult to say what to do, but after think.
ing q bit told him to buy 100 shares Of
certain stock. II think you viii make
800 on it, " he added, "but If the market
goes against You, I'll protect the stock. =
The man made his $100. and the next
evening, when Mr.. Sage returned to hil
home, Mrs. Sage showed him letter
from the wife Of the man who had ap-
pea1ed for aid, thanking her in the
warmest terms for the conduct Of hel
hy,al,and
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1887-04-30

Instinct is usually defined as the fac
ulty Of acting in such way as to pro-
duce certain ends, without foresight of
the ends, and without previous educa-
ton in the performance. That in
stincts, as thus defined, exist on an
enormous scale in the animal kingdom
needs no proof They are the functional
correlatives of structure. With the
presence of certain organ goes, one
may say, almost always native apti-
tude for it's use.
A very common way of talking about
these admirably definite tendencies to
act is by naming abstractly the purpose
they subserve, such as self-preserva-
ton, or defense, or care for eggs and
young-and saying the animal has an
instructive fear of death and love of
life, or that she has an instinct of self
preservation, or an instinct of maternity
and the like. But this represents the
animal as obeying distractions which,
not once in million cases, is it pos
sible it can have framed. The strict
physiological way of interpreting the
facts leads to far clearer results. The
actions we call instructive, all conform
to the general reflex type; they are
called forth by determinate sensory
stimuli in contact with the animals
body, or at a distance in his environ
ment. The cat runs after the mouse,
runs or shows fight before the dog,
avoids falling from walls and trees,
shuns fire and water, ETC., not because
he has any notion either of life or of
death, or of self, or of preservation.
He has probably attained to no one Of
these conceptions in such way as to
react definitely upon it. He acts in
each case separately, and. simply be-
cause he cannot help it.; being so
framed that when that particular rum
ming thing called a mouse appears in his
field of vision he must pursue; that
when that particular barking and OBJ
streperous thing called a dog appears
there, he must retire, if at distance,
and scratch if close by; that he must
withdraw his feet from water and his
face from fame, etc. His nervous sys-
tenn is to great extent programmed
bundle of such reactions are as
fatal as sneezing, and as exactly cor
related to their special excitants as it is
to its own. Although the naturalist
may, for his own convenience, class
these reactions under general heads, he
must not forget that in the animal it is
particular sensation or perception or
image which calls them forth.-Prof.
William James, I'M Scribner's Maya
zine.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1887-04-30
The Arctic White Whale.

Schools of white whale-beluga or
grampus-are the first of the cetacean
family that appear along the Alaskan
shores when the ice begins to break
up. Their cleaning white color is
sensibly visible as they gracefully
cleave the dark-green waters of the sea.
Following the ice pack as it drifts to
north and west, these grampus seem to
be the forerunners of their gigantic
brothers, the low-head whale balana,
in their passage to the northern waters.
In hunting these white whales the
natives on Kotzebue Sound display
great ingenuity. A feet of kiacks
spread into q semicircle incloses the
school, gradually driving the affrighted
fish into shallow water, until, being
unable to escape by reason of ground
ing upon the beach, they fall easy vic
Tins to the spears or harpoons of their
hunters. On the coast to the north of
the sound the rife again serves as q
weapon to kill the beluga.
The Mutes have q curious custom
which is observed whenever the first
white whale of the season is killed.
After the carcass is brought on shore
the Oldest male of the village or hunt
ing-party sits upon the beach, and,
facing the dead whale, intones series
of invocations to the deceased, implor-
ing its spirit not to return to the sea,
and thereby warn other members of his
family against his captors. Small por-
tions of the lip and fins are cut off and
buried in the earth. Before this cere-
mony takes place no one is allowed to
commence stripping the blubber or
working upon the body. When. seal
is brought on shore it is laid upon its
back and some fresh water is poured
over its head, so that the spirit will not
60 back to the sea and warn off the
other phoce. White whale blubber
resembles limburger cheese in taste,
while the flesh, if of calf, is tender
and palatable. The fins. when boiled
and covered with vinegar, are an excel
lent substitute for pigs feet-San
Francisco Chronicle.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1887-04-30

The idea Of the @transfer pictures,
painted In glaring colors and designed
for children, which they can transfer to
their copy-books or other objects by
simply moistening the picture or the
object, has been adopted by German
for labelling bottles, and is likely to be
q great success. The label is impressed
on the bottle in generous colors, and a
coat OF varnish keeps it there, which is
a considerable Improvement on the old
gum label system. The simplicity OF
the process recommends it for q very
wide use.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1887-04-30
An Early Renaissance.

A writer, q lady whose name is not
given, records this Renaissance of her
first meeting with Dickens when he
was young man:
It was at the house of relative of
mine. I was first introduced to his wife
in the sanctuary of the bedroom, where
I was arranging my hair before the
glass. I thought her a pretty little
woman, with the heavy-lidded, large,
blue eyes, so much admired by men.
The nose was little retrousse, the
forehead good, mouth small, round and
red-lipped, with pleasant, smiling ex-
preston, Notwithstanding the sleepy
look of the slow-moving eyes. The
weakest part of the face was the chin,
which melted too suddenly into the
throat. I went down with q futtering
heart to be introduced to Boz.
The first ideas that flashed through
me were: What fine, characteristic
facet What marvellous eyes! And
what horrid taste in dress!
He wore his hair long in admired
disorder" and it suited the picturesque
tyle of his head; but he had on q
surtout with q very wide collar, very
much thrown back, showing vast ex-
panse of waistcoat, drab trousers and
drab boots with patent leather toes.
and the whole effect apart from his fine
head gave evidence of a loud taste OF
costume.-R. H. StodGayd.